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Show Food Stocks Greater, Despite Higher Price Demands, Report of Federal Trade Board Says WASHINGTON, Aug, 7. Although Al-though prices of practically all important foods have shown substantial increast! during- the last year, stocks of foods held In storage on June 1, this year, were approximately 20 per j cent greateV than those held on June 1, 31S, according to a mornorandum j showing the relation between storage figures and prices issued today by the federal trade commission. Government Govern-ment stocks were excluded from the com parison. "The fact that stocks of many important im-portant foods were much larger on June 1, this yenr, th;m on th- same date last year," said the commission's statement, "while prices were as high or higher, apparently means that they are being held speculatively for a world demand which is not now here, but which is expected when h tinker -Impelled strikers stnjro higher watres with which higher food prices can he paid." To show that the "law of supply and demand is not working." the rommis-sion rommis-sion listed eight staple foods whirh on June 1 showed an iivr;: se in stocks withheld from the mark-t ranging from Z to -S p-r ot nt over stocks X on June 1, and in e;i--h instance thrrc was shown in have bc-n a sulr-st;inti;il sulr-st;inti;il aoviincc in (he wholesale priep during that p' Tin i. Stocks of frozen fowis showed a maximum in-crt-Fis.- of L".'-S pf,r- .-'nluial the pri-e. d'-spile this furl. im-re;is'-d :: c-nts a pound. Wheal storks showed an increase in-crease of 21 per f'-nt, with an inrrr-rie in the price per barrel of nearly egg storks an inn-rase of lt.fi prr cent, with an inrrea s: in prlrr of n cents, and bulter storks an inrrease of 1L'9 per r'-nt, with the prire souring 12 crnts above last year's figur-r. Salt berf. canned salmon and rani.rd rorn rompletrd the it-ms in this tahl the latt'T showing an incrraf-r of !i I p r cent in stocks with an increase in price. All dry storage f-tnrhs, arrording to the commission's figures. snow-d an a vf'i-;: ge inrrea se ot 12 i prr cent. .'f these nnt Jistrd above, s'orks of rye inrreas'd ':, W per cent; barley. 207 per rent; burkv.heat flour. 2':1 p'-r rrnt, and canned tomatoes. 2h2 p'-r ff nt. lncr'-as'-s in other cold storage storks were shown as fopows: Cured beef, P'.'i per rent; frozen in tub and mutton. 'Jl per cent; f ro.en pork', 2') per rent, and pi'-kb-d pork, b) p r cen ', |